Waclaw Stachiewicz

Waclaw Stachiewicz (19 November 1894-12 November 1973) was Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army from 7 June 1935 to 18 September 1939, succeeding Janusz Gasiorowski and preceding Aleksander Kedzior.

Biography
Waclaw Stachiewicz was born on 19 November 1894 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) to a family of Catholic Poles, and he served in the military during World War I. When Poland gained independence, he served in the Ministry of War Affairs, and he became a Brigadier-General in 1935. From 1935 to 1939, he served as Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, and he commanded the Polish military at the time of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. Stachiewicz escaped from German captivity after surrendering to the Heer, and he spent the remainder of World War II without assignment in London, United Kingdom. In 1948, he moved to Montreal in Canada, and he died in 1973 at the age of 78.